closing only the smallest of the 10 schools on the list.
It’s not entirely clear why DPS, the state’s largest district, suddenly changed its school closure plan. The district said in its announcement that the five schools still being considered receive more than two-thirds of the almost $5 million DPS provides to subsidize the original 10 schools. “It sounds like they are responding to the community in a positive way,” said Kathy Schultz, dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder. “They’re compromising.”“The decision is very interesting … because those individual schools have not been as vocal as others,” said board Vice President Auon’tai Anderson about the new plan.
DPS should have met with the schools and asked their employees and families what they wanted to happen, Anderson said. For example, he said, would families be fine with a school cutting art or gym classes if it meant their school gets to stay open? Denver Public Schools board President Xóchitl “Sochi” Gaytán, center, listens to other board members during a DPS retreat held at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver on Aug. 8, 2022.
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